This is a list of software (both commercial and otherwise) available for 3D reconstruction of MRI, CT, confocal, and serial-section data for medical/life-sciences imaging.
Windows-based contour editor and visualizer from Data Cell Ltd. (Platforms: PC; Cost: ~$1500)
3DVIEWNIX is a transportable, very inexpensive software system developed by the Medical Image Processing Group, Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. It has state-of-the-art capabilities for visualizing, manipulating, and analyzing multidimensional, multimodality image information. It is designed to run on Unix machines under X-windows. (Platforms: SGI, Sun, PC; Cost: unknown)
Interactive segmentation and visualisation package for biomedical images. (Platforms: SGI, Sun, Windows; Cost: $$$$)
Provides an environment for the interactive visualisation and manipulation of 2-D, 3-D and 4-D biomedical images. An integrated set of tools is provided to allow data to be interrogated in both two and three dimensions. (Platforms: SGI, Sun, HP, DEC; Cost: $$$)
AutoDeblur performs blind deconvolution for 3d data. (Platforms: SGI; Cost: unknown)
AVS - commercial visualization package from Advanced Visual Systems, Inc. (Platforms: SGI, Sun, HP, DEC; Cost: unknown)
Biomedical image measurement and analysis system. (Platforms: Mac, PC; Cost: $$)
3D reconstruction and quantitative histochemistry system. (Platforms: PC; Cost: unknown)
The Army High Performance Computing Research Center (AHPCRC) has been developing a set of tools to work with large time dependent 2D and 3D data sets. (Platforms: SGI; Cost: free)
3D Image analysis package by Foster-Findlay Associates (UK). (Platforms: PC (DOS, Windows), Unix (IBM, Sun, SGI); Cost: unknown)
A system for high-resolution 3D fluorescence microscopy. Provides image acquisition, deconvolution, and analysis capabilities. (Platforms:PC; Cost: Unknown)
CT programs by Malcolm Slaney. (Platforms: Many; Cost: free)
Image acquisition and deconvolution software for 5-dimensional microscopy. (Platforms: SGI; Cost: unknown)
Slicer/Dicer is a volumetric visual data analysis package. (Platforms: Mac; Cost: $)
Macintosh-based reconstruction package. (Platforms: Mac; Cost: unknown)
CT/MR display and analysis program for Macintosh color computers. (Platforms: Mac; Cost: free)
Electron microscopy reconstruction software package from Stanford. (Platforms: Win, UNix; Cost: free)
Low-end 3D reconstruction, mapping, and analysis system. Contour-based using a digitizing tablet. (Platforms: PC; Cost: $24-28k (NTS), $8-10k (NTSV))
It is a software environment for visualizing and analyzing Computational Fluid Dynamics data. (Platforms: SGI; Cost: free)
PC-based serial section reconstruction program for microscopy created by Kinnamon/Young at UColorado. (Platforms: PC; Cost: unknown)
Imaging Applications Platform is a commercial package for medical and scientific visualization. (Platforms: Most workstations; Cost: $$)
IBM Data Explorer. (Platforms: IBM, SGI, Sun, HP, DG; Cost: unknown)
IDL (Interactive Data Language) is a package for the interactive reduction, analysis, and visualization of scientific data and images. (Platforms: IBM, SGI, Sun, HP, DEC, PC, Mac; Cost: $$)
Image Pro from Media Cybernetics ($2,999). (Platforms: PC (Win3.1, NT, 95); Cost: $$$)
Software environment for confocal imaging. (Platforms: SGI; Cost: unknown)
Interactive image processing, contour editing, 3D reconstruction for confocal, EM, X-ray tomography, and MRI. (Platforms: SGI; Cost: unknown)
Imagist2 from Princeton Gamma Tech- integrated microscope and analysis systems. (Platforms: Sun; Cost: unknown)
Image modeling package used for EM tomography and serial section reconstruction. (Platforms: unknown; Cost: unknown)
IRAF (Image Reduction and Analysis Facility). (Platforms: unknown; Cost: unknown)
Software environment for creating image understanding applications. (Platforms: Sun, IBM, DEC, SGI; Cost: $$)
Very large, general image processing toolkit. (Platforms: Sun, SGI, IBM, DEC, HP; Cost: free)
Designed to display a texture map image of three-dimensional (3-D) data. (Platforms: Mac; Cost: shareware)
2D data analysis and visualization application for the Macintosh. (Platforms: Mac; Cost: unknown)
MacStereology is package designed to make measurements of images and to make 3-D reconstructions. (Platforms: Mac; Cost: unknown)
Image analysis and quantification mainly for fluorescence imaging. (Platforms: PC; Cost: unknown)
Medical image visualization and analysis program for MRI, CT, PET, and SPECT. (Platforms: SGI; Cost: unknown)
Integrated microscope image capture, enhancement, reconstruction, and visualization system. (Platforms: PC; Cost: unknown)
MicroMorph is the software aid in learning the mathematical morphology techniques of image analysis. (Platforms: PC; Cost: Varies)
MicroVision II can be used for for visualising point-sampled data volumes. produced by 3D scanning devices such as MRI, PET, CT-scanners and confocal microscopes. (Platforms: PC; Cost: unknown)
MicroVoxel is a 3D imaging package that imports data from BioRad MRC-600 files, TIFF files, or raw 8-bit data. (Platforms: PC; Cost: unknown)
Montage is one of the first complete serial-section reconstruction packages and was produced at the University of Pennsylvania. (Platforms: Sun, SGI, IBM, PC; Cost: free)
Mvox is a general purpose tool for visualization and manipulation of a wide range of 2-4D grey level/colour images and 3D surface graphics. (Platforms: SGI, HP, IBM; Cost: $$)
3D Visualization tools from the NCSA. (Platforms: Sun, SGI, DEC, IBM, Cray, Mac; Cost: free)
Neuro_Echo aids analysis of double-echo MR brain scans from the GE Signa imager. The program uses axial scans to segment the brain scans into gray matter, white matter and CSF. (Platforms: Sun; Cost: unknown)
Interactive image analysis software for neuron tracing and anatomical mapping. (Platforms: PC; Cost: unknown)
NIH Image has painting and image manipulation tools, a macro language, tools for measuring areas, distances and angles, and for counting things. (Platforms: Mac; Cost: free)
This is Bernhard Geiger's (INRIA) reconstruction package. (Platforms: Sun, SGI, DEC; Cost: free)
On-Line Pattern Analysis and Recognition System from the PAR Government Systems Corporation. (Platforms: Sun, DEC; Cost: unknown)
High-end visualization and rendering for movies, but also for the medical community. (Platforms: SGI; Cost: $$$)
Pixcell from Sandia Labs. (Platforms: Sun; Cost: free)
PV-WAVE from Visual Numerics. (Platforms: unknown; Cost: unknown)
A Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) data processing program for the Macintosh. (Platforms: Mac; Cost: unknown)
Serial-section based reconstruction and visualization system for microscopy. (Platforms: SGI; Cost: free)
Florida State University scientific visualization package. (Platforms: SGI, IBM; Cost: free)
General image Processing and acquisition system. (Platforms: PC, DEC, Sun; Cost: unknown)
SGI Iris Explorer. (Platforms: SGI, Cray, DEC, HP, IBM, Sun; Cost: unknown)
Sunview - available from SunSoft. (Platforms: Sun; Cost: unknown)
Sun Visualization software, providing SunIPLib (Image Processing), SunVoxel (volume rendering), SunART (high-quality rendering), SunGV (interactive 3D graphics). (Platforms: Sun; Cost: unknown)
UCSD reconstruction/visualization program. (Platforms: SGI; Cost: free)
Macintosh-based package from UCLA. (Platforms: Mac; Cost: free)
Tomographic Imaging- PC Software for 3D image processing of pixel planes. (Platforms: PC; Cost: unknown)
No information available. (Platforms: unknown; Cost: unknown)
Public-domain software package for magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy data. (Platforms: Unix; Cost: free)
Commercial volumetric display and analysis tool for Unix. (Platforms: Sun, HP, SGI; Cost: $$$)
SGI-based program from UNC. (Platforms: SGI; Cost: unknown)
Visualization program for time-varying multi-variate 3-D gridded data. (Platforms: SGI, IBM, Sun, HP, DEC; Cost: unknown)
Visualization program for interactively steering and visualizing scientific computation. (Platforms: SGI; Cost: unknown)
VolPack is a portable software library for volume rendering. (Platforms: SGI, Sun, HP, DEC; Cost: unknown)
Volume Visualization package from SUNY. (Platforms: SGI, Sun, HP; Cost: unknown)
MR and CT visualizer. (Platforms: unknown; Cost: unknown)
Voxel-based 3d volume rendering system developed by Randall Frank at the University of Iowa Image Analysis Facility. (Platforms: SGI, Sun, DEC, HP, IBM, Mac, PC; Cost: unknown)
3D Volume renderer for Windows. (Platforms: PC; Cost: $)
Interactive atlas of skull and brain. (Platforms: unknown; Cost: unknown)
VoxelView software from Vital images for 3D reconstruction of images. (Platforms: SGI, Mac; Cost: unknown)
Voxtool from General Electric. (Platforms: PC, Unix; Cost: unknown)
VROOM (Vol. Rendering by Object Oriented Meth.). C++ Library. (Platforms: unknown; Cost: unknown)
Wavefront Data Visualizer. (Platforms: SGI, Sun, IBM, HP, DEC; Cost: unknown)
General purpose image processing software from GW Hannaway & Associates. (Platforms: SGI; Cost: unknown)
X-Windows interface to Computational Optical Sectioning Microscopy. (Platforms: SGI, DEC, Sun; Cost: Free)
Software/hardware that can convert a series of parallel MRI/CT scan images to a 3D reconstructive model in a CAD system. (Platforms: unknown; Cost: unknown)